Re: High Speed Trains in Australia

Oliver Keating (olikea@msn.com)
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:56:52 -0000

160km/h is fairly fast given Australias population density. (18mn) Canada
with a roughly similar pop density (20mn) operates 150km/h trains. Its only
in places like France and the UK which have about 55mn each that trains go
as fast as 300km/h becuase the numbers involved support the costs.
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Regards,
Oliver Keating
London, UK
E-mail: oli@keating.ml.org
Web page: http://keating.ml.org
 David Proctor wrote in article <01bcfd22$5755fde0$054a23cb@daproc>...
>A good place to check out is http://www.railpage.org.au - there is an XPT
>link which is currently Australias fastest train at 160km/h (which is NOT
>fast), and also a link to a Queensland Rail site, which has information
on
>the new QR electric tilt train to operate Brisbane - Rockhampton, also at
>160 km/h (which is still NOT fast).
>
>Trust the above will be of interest.
>
>David Proctor
>daproc@bigfoot.com
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